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United States Patent | 6,262,434 |
Kalb | July 17, 2001 |
The present invention relates, in one embodiment, to an integrated circuit including a first circuit structure, a first conductive bonding pad coupled to the first circuit structure, a second circuit structure, and a second conductive bonding pad coupled to the second circuit structure. The first conductive bonding pad is arranged to be separated from the second bonding pad by a gap having a gap dimension. The gap dimension is configured to be bridged by a wire bond, thereby permitting the wire bond to electrically couple the first conductive bonding pad with the second conductive bonding pad when the wire bond is coupled to the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad at the gap.
Inventors: | Kalb; Jeffrey C. (Saratoga, CA) |
Assignee: | California Micro Devices Corporation (Milpitas, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 914309 |
Filed: | August 18, 1997 |
Current U.S. Class: | 257/48; 257/530; 257/537; 257/E23.02; 338/114; 338/140; 338/195; 338/319; 338/320; 438/4; 438/384 |
Intern'l Class: | H01L 023/58; H01L 029/00 |
Field of Search: | 438/382,384,617,4 257/484,530,775,48,723,724,536,537,538 29/610.1 338/295,319,320,195,114,140 |
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